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Sonoraite

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Description
Locality: 
Toughnut Mine, Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.6 × 0.5 × 0.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with nice bladed crystals of sonoraite making up the entire surface of the specimen. There is a small vug in the center with freestanding sonoraite plates with unknown spheres growing on them. Rare from this locality. Former Fred DeVito collection. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sonoraite

Formula: 
Fe3+(TeO3)(OH)·H2O
Strunz: 
4.JN.05
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico

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